WordPress not Updating – Asking for FTP Details – Fixed

I was asked to have a look at a particular problem on a WordPress site, where nothing was auto updating at the click of the appropriate button, it was going and asking for FTP details that we didn’t have and shouldn’t have even needed.

Firstly I made sure that the wp-content director had permissions as 755, it did, and still not working.

It transpires that there was another problem in that the directories were not owned by process running Apache.